Looking for a quick, budget friendly way to add art to your home? Digital prints are a great way to personalize your home while staying within budget! Our entryway is still going through a transition period. There's so many things I want to do, but until we can get it done, I've been focusing on easier ways to give the space the fresh look it's been needing. Adding new art in the entryway has done just that. It's been a fun, budget friendly way to really update the space, all while being cost effective. Affiliate links are provided below. Full disclosure here. Adding Art To The Entryway Digital prints have long since been one of my ...
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Laminate Countertops & Backsplash
The secret is out: Our kitchen has laminate countertops & backsplash! See how we made it look like real marble! It's been a hot minute since I've shared anything about our kitchen, but so much has changed lately! It's time I shared an update on one of the biggest additions yet, our laminate countertops and backsplash! When we designed the kitchen, we knew we'd need to splurge and save in different areas with the countertop and backsplash being one of them. But just because we needed to save in that area, didn't mean they needed to look cheap! Quite the opposite really! Laminate has come a long, long way from what it used to look like. These days, you can get patterns that look ...
Customizing Our Ikea Pax Dining Room Cabinet
Today I'm sharing how we customized our Ikea Pax dining room cabinet. It's the perfect way to add character to Ikea cabinets while staying on budget. Our kitchen is small. We don't have a ton of storage, and that's something our entire house lacks as well. Getting creative and adding places to store our items has been on my project list since we moved in. In order to help add storage space to our kitchen, we added an Ikea Pax cabinet to our dining room. It instantly solved the problem of adding more storage space to our kitchen, but it also stuck out like a sore thumb, not really blending into our kitchen. With our kitchen and dining room essentially one space, I really wanted the ...
DIY Towel Hook Rack
This DIY Towel Hook Rack is the perfect addition to our master bathroom and a great way to store towels! We've been busy working in our master bathroom and I was hoping to be able to share the full reveal with you at the end of the month, but since I haven't had the easiest time shopping for all those pretty finishing touches, things have been pushed back for a while. One thing we were able to create, was our DIY Towel Hook Rack. This was such a fun project to put together and I love the finished product. Believe it or not, but the wood is actually a left over stair tread from when we did our DIY staircase makeover. I loved the stair treads so much, that I wasn't willing to ...
My Favorite Digital Prints For Winter
Since we have a few months to go still, today I thought I'd share my favorite digital prints for winter. The perfect thing about purchasing digital prints, is that not only are they cheap, but you can customize the size for your space... just like I did in my dining room! It's also an easy process to frame a digital print... you can either use your own home printer, or have it professionally printed! Digital prints are perfect for adding artwork to your home, decorating for the seasons and mixing and matching with pieces you may already have to create unique displays! Whether you need a horizontal or vertical print, these are perfect! They're all instant downloads, so as soon ...
Guest Bedroom Headboard Makeover
The guest bedroom is moving along, which is so nice to see since the room sat as a complete danger (aka, junk) zone for months... When I decided to give this room a much needed refresh, one of the elements I knew I wanted to keep, was the headboard. I originally made it 10 plus years ago, which is crazy to think about, but it was the first piece I made for my first apartment after graduating high school. Throughout the years, it's always been in use, and it's honestly aged beautifully! The fabric I originally chose is still so fitting, and I thought long and hard about keeping it, but in the long run I decided to give it a slight refresh by recovering the fabric with something ...
Bringing Summer Inside
One of my favorite elements of summer, is all the gorgeous blooms and green foliage. Even the weeds look amazing this time of year, so lush and vibrant. I recently took a walk around our property and was surrounded by so much beauty! Even though it was a little dark and gloomy, and the clouds were threatening rain, I couldn't help but walk back to the house to grab my scissors to snip a few of the lovely blooms I found. I'm all about bringing summer inside, and be them weeds or not, these free, light and happy blooms were too perfect not to bring in and create a pretty bouquet... The breakfast nook was the perfect place to display them... It's a bit hard to see, but they ...
DIY Leather Pulls
Want to make your own DIY Leather Pulls? See our full tutorial below and customize them to fit your space. Cabinet hardware is always such a huge way of transforming a piece of furniture, or an entire space. Thing is though, cabinet hardware can be down right expensive. Lately, I've been loving all things leather, so when it came down to finalizing the cabinet hardware for the new office desk and filing cabinet, I couldn't stop myself from incorporating leather. So, we made our own DIY leather pulls! I honestly couldn't be more thrilled with how the pulls turned out, or how easy and budget friendly they were to make. Not kidding! DIY Leather Pulls Affiliate ...
DIY Concrete Lamp
I have a slight new obsession, and it comes in the form of concrete lamps. They're pretty much eye candy for me, always grabbing my attention whenever I see them. I even added one to our home a few weeks ago, and you can see it here. While there's absolutely nothing wrong with buying your own concrete lamp, I wanted to see if I could create my own DIY version. I mean, there are so many hopeless lamps floating around in thrift stores, I loved the idea of making my own. After a little bit of trial and error, I found a formula that not only came close to mimicking the real deal, but one that's fool proof, making you take a double look to check and see if it really is concrete! ...
Alfalfa Clippings
You're in for a real treat today friends, because I'm sharing an absolutely gorgeous peek into my beautiful friend Chelsea's kitchen! Remember her dining room? Swoon! Her home is utterly fabulous, and I love being able to share it with you... major inspiration, and I know you all love it as much as I do! Chelsea has always mentioned how much she loves how I use the outdoors so much in my décor. Be that just as my initial inspiration, or when I bring the outdoors in with fresh clippings. You know how much I love using tree clippings as my focal point, but for her kitchen, we decided on some Alfalfa clippings. Gorgeous! Living in a very rural area like we do, it's easy to ...
How To Make A Floral Letter
Happy Thursday friends! I hope you've had a great week. Sorry about the radio silence on the blog this week. I've been working hard to get everything finished up for my e-book launch, which takes place on Monday, May 30th! It's coming fast! If you want to read more about it, click here. For today's project, I'm focusing on one of the décor items I made for the baby shower I hosted for my cousin a few weeks ago. When deciding on the theme for the baby shower, I kept going back to florals... and that worked especially well since my cousin is having a baby girl. Since they already had a name picked out, I decided to combine the floral theme I loved, with the baby name. As a result, I had ...
Wall Lights In The Breakfast Nook
I've been dreaming of wall lights on either side of our breakfast nook window for a few months now. I love the way they look, and they add that extra detail that really makes a room feel finished. Our breakfast nook had been lacking a little something, and I knew it was the wall lights. Since we've added them, it's like night and day difference. The room instantly feels different, perhaps a little more "expensive" looking, and a whole lot more finished! Our breakfast nook is my favorite room in the house, and it feels the most, dare I say it, finished. I'm sure I just jinxed myself... Adding them to the wall was quite easy, but because we didn't use actual "wall lights with a ...
Combining Board & Batten With Planked Walls
We've been working on adding custom finishing touches to our home since we built it 4 years ago. We've updated much of lighting, built a bench for our breakfast nook, and added board and batten and plank walls throughout the house. In my opinion, the biggest and most custom changes have come from the board and batten walls, and the plank walls. They have added a craftsmanship to our home, which it was lacking. Adding the custom wall treatments has also clearly distinguished certain rooms in our open floor plan. Like most, I would agree that having an open floor plan is a wonderful and beautiful thing. But, it also makes it hard to establish different rooms because of the open ...
How To Hang Plates On The Wall
See my easy tutorial on how to hang plates on the wall. It's perfect for adding character and personality to your home, all while displaying your favorite dishes! Today it's all about how to hang plates on the wall. I've tried to do this the cheap way with the paper clip/ hot glue option, but it's been unsuccessful and I broke a few dishes along the way... Not again, I vowed, and these plates are holding strong! This really was an easy project. I wanted to showcase some of the lovely dishes I have collected over the years. I mean, you can only stack them for so long before you crave something else... They also add a nod to the "breakfast nook", declaring it a room for eating yummy ...
The Easiest Napkin Ring
These cheap and easy napkin rings are the perfect addition to your holiday table. They're great for any season, can easily be customized and go with any dish set for the ease of mixing and matching! I shared a peek of the easiest napkin ring ever on our fall table setting last week. And when I say they're the easiest napkin ring ever, I mean it. Anyone with any skill set can make these. It only takes 3 simple steps... First, I bought the wire berry vine at JoAnn's, but I've seen this type of product at other craft stores as well. I loved the cream berries, and knew they would work with any season, but you could easily buy colored berries, flowers, etc to match the season. Here's ...
Decorating with Tree Branches
Want to know my secret for adding that perfect pop of color, texture and amazing, real life decor to any season? Decorating with tree branches! They are the perfect way to bring any season into your home, all while being free from your yard! And bonus, it's a great way to give your tree/ shrub/ bush a little healthy trimming. Oh man. I've just discovered one beautiful tree that's been right in front of my face since we bought our farm about... 5 years ago. Sometimes I am so oblivious. :-D In keeping with the tradition that is my decorating style, I wanted to freshen up the house since our summer home tour a few months ago. The tree branches had long since died, and my vases were ...
DIY Painted Curtains
Curtains. They're not an easy thing to find and love. I've bought my share of panels, thought I would love them, and turns out I didn't. Not only was that a bummer, but often they didn't fit my windows right in length. That in itself is frustrating, but then there's the fact that buying those extra length curtains practically means you won't eat for a month. Those things are expensive. So, I decided to make my own DIY painted curtains. I'd been on the hunt for something in our master bedroom, but since I needed a total of 6 panels, I knew it wasn't going to be cheap. And then, I ran into this tutorial. I absolutely loved her curtains, the light pattern and the neutral colors. Now those, ...
Outdoor Patio Furniture Makeover
Oh. Man. I am so excited to share one of my biggest furniture makeover's to date! Early this spring, I decided it was time to put to use, and really use, our back patio. Until a about a month ago, we had a huge, lovely patio with random miscellaneous furniture. And some of it wanted to blow away when the wind hit. I was tired of chasing chairs across our farm fields. And as soon as I made up my mind to finally buy a new patio set, our dishwasher decided to skip out. Needless to say, I wanted a dishwasher more than patio furniture. So, just like that, my furniture budget was gone. My determination and desire for a patio set, however, was still there. What's a girl to do? About a week ...
DIY Scrap Wood Letter
Our scrap wood pile has been growing with all the DIY projects we've been making. Luckily, I really like to dig through it to see what my options are. It's one of my favorite past times, and a challenge I look forward to. Creating something amazing out of scraps= a bunch of fun! And since we love to share projects for $30 or less on $30 Thursday (the first Thursday of each month), this DIY scrap wood letter fits right in! This scrap wood letter was so easy to make--- promise! Plus, you can customize it to your initial! And even if you don't have the scrap wood laying around, you can easily buy one fence picket for less than $30. Woot! It's so easy to make! Here's how! First, ...
Wood Welcome Sign
I mentioned before that I'm all about sprucing up the exterior of our home, and I can't wait until I can start planting flowers and herbs! For this edition of $30 Thursday, I decided to spend the attention on our front porch, and add something to go with the new wreath I just shared. In case you’re new here, $30 Thursday takes place on the first Thursday of the new month. April from House by Hoff and Jen from Migonis Home join me in bringing you new ideas you can make for $30 or less! And my new wood welcome sign fits that bill perfectly! Here's how I made it... I started with a round piece of wood from the lumber section at your hardware store. This one is from Home ...
DIY Wood Framed Mirror
This DIY Wood Framed Mirror is the perfect accessory for any space! See our easy, step by step tutorial below. Lately, I've found the need for a full length mirror in our bathroom, which inspired this DIY wood framed mirror. I'm always getting dressed, wondering how it all looks "put together", so I finally decided it was time to change that thought process. Our master bathroom itself needs a bit of work... it's still painted that bright blue, and I am so extremely sick of it. I think this may be the project that finally pushes me to take action and make changes as I'm inspired. This DIY wood framed mirror was so easy to put together... I love how it turned out, and it was ...
